Vocabulary
The place where two tectonic plates meet
What is a plate boundary?
List the 3 different kinds of seismic waves.
What are Surface waves, P-waves, and S-waves?
A plate boundary where plates slip past each other.
What is a transform plate boundary?
On the page 12 of ESSRT, __________ crust is gray and ________ is white.
What is oceanic and continental?
An event that occurs after movement at every plate boundary
What is an earthquake?
Layers of the Earth are arranged in order of increasing _____________ (g/cm3) and _____________ (km).
These waves move fast and can pass through all states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas).
What are P-waves?
A plate boundary where we can find mid-ocean ridges and crust.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
Hot air/liquid has __________ density than cold air/liquid.
What is lower density?
This event is caused by volcano collapses, underwater volcanic eruption, or plates slipping.
What is a tsunami?
Plates float on top of the _______________________.
What is the mantle?
These waves move side to side and can only pass through the crust and mantle.
What are S-waves?
List the different types of convergent plate boundaries.
What are continental-continental, continental-oceanic, oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundaries?
Reverse and normal magnetic rock is proof of this kind of plate boundary.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
List states of matter for each layer of the Earth.
Crust (solid), mantle (solid), outer core (liquid), and inner core (solid).
Scientists use _______________ to measure earthquakes. We can analyze the strength of an earthquake by looking at a _________________.
What is a seismometer and seismogram?
What is an oceanic-continental convergent plate boundary?
____________ is a natural event that can threaten people, property, and the environment but ___________ is the harmful impact on a community.
What is a natural hazard and a natural disaster?
A place not on a tectonic plate boundary where volcanoes form
What is a hotspot?
The Earth's crust is densest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
What is thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents.
On a seismogram, we would see _________ first and _________ second.
What are P-waves and S-waves?
This causes plates to move in the mantle.
What is convection in the mantle?
Japan, Jakarta, Iceland, Haiti.